Never before has aerial combat been so fast, so in-your-face and so vicious. It's time to set the sky on fire.

The demanding Project Aces development team at Namco Bandai Games Inc. in Japan weren't satisfied. They wanted more from the series. They wanted planes that tore apart limb from limb right in front of your face, spewing their oil lifeblood across the sky. They wanted to scrape the streets and dodge the steel skyscrapers of real world cities at blistering speeds, in an enthralling war drama that spanned the globe with a web of intrigue. They wanted players to pick up the controller and become deadly combat pilots in seconds, pulling off breathtaking kills at impossible speeds, and doing battle online in a multiplayer sky littered with fiery supersonic debris. What they wanted was steel carnage in the sky.

The result is not a sequel in the multi-million selling smash hit Ace Combat series, but a complete rebirth, a phoenix from the ashes flying at three times the speed of sound. The Project Aces team is building Ace Combat: Assault Horizon from the ground up, with new technology fuelling their passionately realised vision of a game that puts players in the dark heart of the fight like no aerial combat game has done before.

Please Note: All customers who pre-ordered the standard version of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon will receive the Limited Edition at no extra charge

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Limited Edition Includes:

Limited edition "folded" box

Video game DVD

Video game Soundtrack

Notebook signed by the development team

Exclusive aircraft digital content

Game Features:

Dramatic realistic storyline: Written by New York Times Best Seller and military author Jim DeFelice, players will experience an engaging war drama spanning real-world locations across the globe

Entirely new aircrafts to pilot: Experience split-second manoeuvring and positioning, pinpoint targeting, hovering attacks and other gameplay diversity through the introduction of the Attack Helicopter, Door Gunner and more

customer Reviews

5All-round great game

I owned Ace Combat 6 and never got into it. It just seemed way too focused on traditional combat-sim style, and not on making a fun, exciting experience for players. Considering most console gamers are FPS players (including me) it was definitely a good idea from the developer to make this more accessible to the average gamer.

The storyline is very good and the game features a lot of real-world locations and contemporary politics. Ace Combat 6 was all based in some fantasy world, and the storyline was pretty lame. This feels far more like it could sit alongside CoD or BF games, story-wise, which is a definite plus for me.

As for the gameplay, it's brilliant. You get to fly around in not only amazing fighter jets, but also helis, the AC130 gunship, and tactical bombers. The combat is also a definite improvement on all former combat-sims with the addition of a up-close-and-personal style system where, once you're locked onto an enemy air or ground unit, you go into a focused view mode where you can engage on a much more exciting level. The cinematics of flying through skycrapers as buildings fall down beside you, is absolutely amazing, and overall the combat experience is brilliant.

The music and voice acting is all top-notch as well and overall this game provides a lot of enjoyment. I only stuck with the campaign, so I cannot rate the multiplayer experience, but that is also another aspect to the game for hardcore fans of flight combat games. This has put Ace Combat firmly back on the gaming radar and, although taken the series in a new direction, is a definitely positive one which should hopefully attract a lot of new fans.

5A different direction?

Ace Combat fans may not have seen this one coming. Since the beginning, the series has retained a 'shooting-at-dots' style of gameplay, with an enduring combination of simplicity and detail. Assault Horizon is however, is vastly different from it's predecessors. It's new dogfight system give the increasingly stale missile combat concept a sense of violence and brutality, but retains the classic sense of flight the originals provided. The introduction of a somewhat more mature (and real world) storyline is a refreshment upon new and old fans, and the new varieties of aircraft prevent gameplay from slipping into a reoccuring pattern.All in all, this game is not a simulator, nor is it a hard-line reception of complex military aircraft. It is simply a step into a different direction that Project Aces seem to have carefully considered, and exceucted excellently in this case.

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